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lunes, 26 de noviembre de 2012

My son ,took some iced biscuits as a farewell to one of the educators at his Occupational Workshop.
We shall really miss Nancy who has gone back to her country of origen. She was a great friend to the young adults and always had a smile for you.
BYE, bye,Nancy!
BON VOYAGE! BUEN VIAJE! HAVE A SAFE JOURNEY!

were my feelings about this event. And I am sure my daughter Tina,who came too, felt the same.

We were so excited to be going for a day out to meet new friends and discover lots of new products techniques, see demonstrations and generally enjoy our love of baking biscuits at this widely announced event.
A first time for Barcelona. I was especially looking forward to the icing techniques demos by Mark Tilling on behalf of Squires Kitchen, over from the U.K.

We travelled up to Barcelona by train and arrived just after 10am, which was when the fair opened. We went for a coffee,then 5minutes metro ride to Plaza de España, nearest stop.

When we walked out of the underground, we couldnt beleive our eyes: the que was interminable!
Well after a hunt round we found the end of the que,thanks to other peoples directions.
Weird!
There must have been about 3 or 4,000 people waiting to get in!
Just take a look at the photos to give you some idea.

We queued for 2.30hrs and were still in the Plaza de España! We had our FB pages open for any info as we were getting all sorts of crossed comentaries. In front a group of proffesionals from the sector, from Valencia,a family from Madrid, in fact from many parts of Spain.
We all had bought tickets in advance through internet ,supposedly to avoid the queues!
It was quite clear that there was BIG TROUBLE!
As a British ex-pat, I've always been used to queues of an hour or so in UK, here too,for that matter, in High Season to get in Port Aventura fun park.
But we knew there was only one pavillion for the Fair, so it didnt take much working out that an awful lot of tickets had been sold for a limited sized pavillion.
So far,we saw no one from the organisation,no crowd control security.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
So as we are good law abiding citizens, we just waited paitiently in the queue ,practically at a standstill. After a while,more than an hour, posts started going up on the FB page, by other people in the queue, wanting some sort of an explanation.......silence on behalf of the organisers! It wasnt until well after 12.45 that a loudspeaker announced that the were sorry, but for security reasons couldnt allow anyone else in and that they would return our ticket money!

I dont think I have EVER been to a trade fair in Madrid,Valencia,London where there has been such a total lack of organisation,together with more that a touch of AVARICE! We have since been told that over 8.000 tickets had been sold,when the maximum capacity was 1,500 people.

We were advised to put in a complaint to the Consumer association (OCU) as there were so many people involved, which we are in the process of doing. We also await news about having our money returned.

Well, I feel better now that's off my chest. But an awful lot of people were turned away last Saturday morning. I hope that something is done to stop these people organising future events.
When you sell tickets on line, you KNOW exactly how many you have sold. That makes it totally unacceptable to carry on selling tickets at the gate and on top of it all, allow those people in before others who had bought tickets in advance. MAD, all round.

We eventually got to take a photo outside the building---nearest we got to the fair!

For all those many fooball fans out there.
Details are decoupaged and the card is mounted on a red gliiter card, on a bright green A5cardblank with rounded corners.

Christmas card for a "fisherman" with its matching insert. Mounted on a pearl green A5 cardblank,
complete with holly detail and a bright green dragonfly!

This situation rings a bell to many of us! This poor chap seems to have his own idea of "trimmimg" the tree! I wonder what happened to the rest of the tree?
Mounted on crimson A5 cardblank with a gold trim and gold holly detail. Comes with its own matching insert.

How about this card for "Santa's favourite Grandpa" ? Mounted on crimson A5 cardblank with stickles glitter details and glossy accents and gold trim top and bottom. Also has its own matching insert.

domingo, 18 de noviembre de 2012

These are large DL size cards. They are from designer Anna Babajanyan at Craftsuprint who designed these specially for me. the first two have the "Feliz Navidad" wording and the holly leaves decoupaged. They have a matching insert.Son felicitaciones tamaño DL extra grande de Anna Babajanyan a Craftsuprint.Me las diseñó como encargo especial en español y catalán. Los 2 primeros llevan recortados las palabras y las hojas de abeto y tienen hoja interior a juego.

The Christmas trees are also decoupaged and edged in glitter. The background on the green card is just like the aurora borealis,I think! So unusual and really stunning. The top card of this trio has the trees decorated with mini bright blue gems. Otherwise they are all decorated with stickles glitter and vary in the type of photographic paper used,(glossy or matte) and the colour of the cardblanks.Los abetos estan todos recortados y los contornos acabados con purpurina, menos la primera aquí que lleva brillantes minis de color azul fuerte.Varian en cuanto al papel fofografico empleado ,mate o brillante y en cuanto el color de fondo de la postal.La verdad, són postales espectaculares. muy grandes y de colores vivos.

Thought I'd better take a photo of these delicious cookies before they dissapeared for good!He fotografiado estas cookies rapido y corriendo antes de que sea demasiado tarde! Son BUENÍIIIIIISSSSIMOS!

There are two sizes, regular biscuit size and extra large to fit in different cookie pockets. ---------------------------------------------

COOKIE POCKETS /BOLSITAS PARA LAS GALLETASThese are a great idea to present cookie and biscuitss, either to sell or as a gift. Here are a selection of cookie pockets I bought and downloaded from Craftsuprint.They are from designer Maureen Tapscott.

jueves, 15 de noviembre de 2012

I'd like you all to know that I'm working on getting some of my favourite cards sorted for the blog. I'll be uploading them in different categories, such as childrens, humorous, Christmas, weddings, birthdays and so on, plus subcategories.
It's taking me a while, as I want to make it as easy as possible to use, so please be patient with me.
I'll probably start with Christmas for obvious reasons, and upload by categories.

As I have Christmas(and greeting) cards in English, Spanish and Catalan , I hope to show examples of each. However, most cards can have the language changed, if anyone is interested.
I'll comment where applicable.

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